I've seen that there have been several topics preciding mine on this subject. I've been trying to follow the steps in them all but nothing is working for me and if anything my problems seems only to have become worse.
I have a roughly year old Dell Inspiron 1525. The HDD on it was failing so i bought a Seagate 2.5" 500GB SATA HDD Momentus 5400.6
The HDD was detected and so I stuck in the windows 7 disk and let it start its proccess. When it came to choosing which disk/partition to unstall windows onto I noticed the error at the bottom:
"Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure controller is enabled."
So after seeking information in this site I found out that I had format the drive from that disk/partition screen mentioned previously.
The problem was that the link was greyed out and I couldnt click it.
From further investigation i found that I had to manually change the boot order of the drives in order for this to be clickable. So i did that. putting the dvd drive 1st.
Now when I boot it up, it shows the "windows it loading files" screen then starting windows (with the logo) but after that the screen goes blank with the cursor on the screen that i can move.
I tried reseting the bios back to default as one post suggested but it is still doing the same thing.
Can anybody help?
I have a roughly year old Dell Inspiron 1525. The HDD on it was failing so i bought a Seagate 2.5" 500GB SATA HDD Momentus 5400.6
The HDD was detected and so I stuck in the windows 7 disk and let it start its proccess. When it came to choosing which disk/partition to unstall windows onto I noticed the error at the bottom:
"Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure controller is enabled."
So after seeking information in this site I found out that I had format the drive from that disk/partition screen mentioned previously.
The problem was that the link was greyed out and I couldnt click it.
From further investigation i found that I had to manually change the boot order of the drives in order for this to be clickable. So i did that. putting the dvd drive 1st.
Now when I boot it up, it shows the "windows it loading files" screen then starting windows (with the logo) but after that the screen goes blank with the cursor on the screen that i can move.
I tried reseting the bios back to default as one post suggested but it is still doing the same thing.
Can anybody help?
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